Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 simply launched a sneak peek at its unbelievable shortlisted profitable entries — and it proves that DSLR cameras nonetheless rule this images style

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• The Wildlife Photographer of the Year competitors has launched a preview of choose profitable pictures for its 62nd 12 months
• Wildlife Photographer of the Year is developed and produced by the Natural History Museum, London
• The full set of 100 profitable pictures shall be exhibited on the Museum following the complete winners’ announcement on October 16

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The winners announcement of the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competitors is one among my favourite dates within the photographic calendar. It looks as if yearly the profitable and counseled photographers outdo themselves in capturing vivid, fascinating tales from the pure world.

One factor I additionally love doing is poring over which cameras the profitable photographers are utilizing to seize their spectacular pictures. As such, when the Museum launched this set of preview pictures to whet our appetites forward of the complete announcement, I headed straight to the caption info — and found to my nice curiosity that the 2 most-used cameras on the checklist to date are each Nikon DSLRs!

The full checklist of cameras used to seize the sixteen pictures on the complete checklist is an actual combined bag. As properly as a collection of professional and prosumer mirrorless and DSLR cameras, there’s additionally a DJI Mavic drone and a Leica Q3 43 compact. However, the 2 cameras that featured most prominently — with two pictures apiece, representing 1 / 4 of the complete checklist — have been the ten-year-old Nikon D500 and the Nikon D850!

The extremely counseled picture ‘Eye of the Storm’ by Dewald Tromp from South Africa, depicting a chameleon battling its manner by a sandstorm in Nigeria (above), was captured utilizing the Nikon D850, as was American Ralph Pace’s picture of a sea hare gliding by eelgrass in Monterey Bay (beneath).

Jack Crawford within the UK has been extremely counseled within the 15-17 Years bracket for his completely timed second of a swift flying beneath the looming bulk of a 747 — shot on a Nikon D500 (beneath).

And Canadian Shane Gross strapped his Nikon D500 into an Aquatica AD500 underwater housing to seize his extremely counseled, half-in half-out picture of a college of bigeye trevally off the coast of the Seychelles (beneath).

One factor’s for certain — the DSLR isn’t lifeless simply but!

If you need to have the ability to see these pictures for your self when the exhibition begins in October, you’ll be able to grab tickets here.

The D850 and D500

The Nikon D850, released in 2017, is a wildlife photography legend. A full-frame DSLR with a generous 45.7MP resolution, its 153-point AF system may not be as sophisticated as the flagship mirrorless cameras that have succeeded it, but it’s still incredibly tenacious and accurate for moving subjects.

With its pitch-perfect handling and large optical viewfinder, the D850 is a joy to shoot with and has captured many spectacular wildlife images since. There’s a reason that when Nikon came to release its mirrorless wildlife specialist the Z8, the manufacturer branded it as a new D850.

The D500, meanwhile, was released a year earlier — meaning it has just marked its ten-year anniversary! Even so, this capable APS-C shooter made a reputation for being a speedster, thanks to its 10fps burst rate that could go up to 200 RAW files, as well as its simply superb autofocus system. As such, it has been embraced over the years by many wildlife photographers without the budget for the D850 — and as this year’s WPOTY results go to show, this stunning camera still has its share of devotees.

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